Max Beerbohm Famous Quotes
Nobody ever died of laughter.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
"It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion."
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Max Beerbohm Quotations
With silence favor me.
Horace
"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beecher
"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."
Mary Webb
"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface."
Aldous Huxley
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
"Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do."
Albert Einstein